Matt Wiedenhoeft on Welfare & Poverty

Limit total welfare amount to avoid permanent recipients

OPPOSE - Permanent welfare recipients; reduction in welfare benefits based on efforts to seek employment, contribute positively to society, and drug testing after a specified timeframe of receiving benefits. Limitations on total amount received
based on a ceiling, not on the number of dependents. Welfare has a purpose to help those who want to and are trying to help themselves; it's abused by many who do not want to help or remove themselves from the system.

SUPPORT - Needed Welfare reform to deter citizens from seeking a living based on government assistance.

SUPPORT - Religious freedom; founding of the country was based on refugees fleeing religious persecution.
No one religion should be the basis of the government. Consequently, no religion should supersede the rights, freedoms, and laws of our nation.